David HB Drake has performed “Wiscon-Sing” for a new CD\DVD package released this year.

There aren't many opportunities for folk singers to go full time, but David HB Drake found a way to make it work, while also celebrating our state's history and teaching multiple generations of Wisconsin children a thing or three.

The 66-year-old Waukesha resident has been performing "Wiscon-Sing," a musical history of the state, for 33 years. | Sept. 5, 2013»Read Full Article

Imagine a Milwaukee without its musicians and dancers, its singers and actors, its highly reputed symphony and its world-class theater. It would look a lot more like Pottersville, that mean-spirited burg of cheap thrills and third-class entertainment that greets George Bailey before his great awakening.

Such were my thoughts Friday night as six veteran Milwaukee-based actors tugged at my heartstrings for the second straight year, in Next Act Theatre's reprise of "It's a Wonderful Life," as transformed by Mary MacDonald Kerr into a 1957 radio play, coming straight to us from the studio of Milwaukee's very own WNAT. | Dec. 14, 2013»Read Full Article(1)